Lectures, data collection from official sources, exercises on spreadsheets, and resolution of application problems in order to know useful tools for the development of skills aimed at the address of studies of the degree course.
Statistics and its aims - Mass phenomena - Levels of measurement - Simple statistical distributions - Frequency density - Tabular and graphical representations
Measures of central tendency - Measures of variability - Concentration - Shape indices - Index numbers
Measures of relationships between two variables - Linear relationships
Probability - Probability distributions for discrete and continuous random variables
Statistical inference - Parameter estimation and hypothesis testing on a single population and comparisons between two populations
Test on frequency data and analysis of the tables contingency.
G. Cicchitelli, P. D'Urso, M. Minozzo (2018), Statistica. Principi e Metodi (3a edizione), Pearson - Prentice Hall, Milano.